 Stirling Energy takes on the solar power challenge
(USA Today: Mon, 21 Jan) Given high oil prices and increased concerns over global warming, anything solar is hot. Stirling Energy Systems aims to commercialize a decades-old technology that is the most efficient at converting sun power to electricity but which has struggled with costs and reliability.
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 Solar energy nearly perfect for Big Bear
(Big Bear Grizzly: Sun, 20 Jan) When Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted an incentive plan in 2006 to have 1 million California homes using solar energy within 10 years, Big Bear Valley residents fell somewhere between the haves and the have nots.
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 Sun Rises Slowly on China's Solar Energy Sector
(Planet Ark: Sun, 20 Jan) SHENZHEN, China - Solar power equipment makers will have to wait another half-decade or so before China, one of the world's fastest-growing but most polluted economies, becomes a major market for them alongside Europe.
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 Thai's New Government Urged To Encourage Solar Energy Use
(Malaysian National News Agency: Sat, 19 Jan) BANGKOK, Jan 19 (Bernama) -- Amid a continued fuel price hike, Solartron Plc, one of the country's major producers of solar cells, has urged Thailand to come up with measures to encourage solar energy consumption to reduce energy costs.
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 West Sac taps into solar power for port needs
(BizJournals: Mon, 21 Jan) The city of West Sacramento has taken a step to ensuring that the energy needs of the Port of Sacramento, the Police Department and a portion of City Hall will be met using solar-produced electricity. (MS)
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 Sunny Spain discovers virtue of solar energy
(Financial Times: Sat, 19 Jan) One of the largest privately-owned conglomerates in China is poised to become a big investor in Spain's booming solar energy sector, joining other foreign and domestic players in the latest investment craze in Spain.
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 Solar inverters get efficiency boost from SiC transistors
(Electronic Engineering Times Asia: Sun, 20 Jan) The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany claims it has achieved record efficiency for its inverter designed for PV generators using SiC power transistors from U.S. vendor Cree.
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Duke asks: What if renewable-energy suppliers fail?
